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Franklin Mine, Michigan -- Copper Town

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a line of wood-sided, saltbox style homes taken from the back yard. An outhouse and a clothesline hung with white laundry are visible in the tall grass of the nearest home's back yard. An empty, light sky dominates the composition; it is cut through by three parallel telephone lines.

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a line of wood-sided, saltbox style homes taken from the back yard. An outhouse and a clothesline hung with white laundry are visible in the tall grass of the nearest home's back yard. An empty, light sky dominates the composition; it is cut through by three parallel telephone lines.

Artist John Vachon (American, 1914–1975)
Title Franklin Mine, Michigan -- Copper Town
Date August 1941
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 7 3/16 × 9 1/2 in. (18.3 × 24.1 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.7 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 79.200.XX.3.60

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Publisher Farm Security Administration

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